ApsaraMQ for Kafka provides value-added capabilities that consume compute resources to meet your business needs. This topic describes the billing items and billing rules of CU postpaid.
Billing items
Billing item | Description | Billing cycle |
CU quantity | The actual quantity of compute resources consumed by capabilities during the billing cycle. | Pay-as-you-go by hour |
Capability scope
Capability | Description | Capability description |
Migration to cloud | The CU quantity consumed by migration to cloud tasks. | 1 CU provides 10 MB/s data transfer capability. |
Data synchronization | The CU quantity consumed by data synchronization tasks. |
Settlement
If the region and pricing information differ from those on the purchase page, the information on the purchase page prevails.
Billing starts after a task is created.
Billing is based on hourly units. The peak traffic within a one-hour window is used as the actual usage. Usage of less than one hour is calculated as one hour.
Settlement is performed once per hour, and a bill is generated once every 24 hours. Fees are automatically deducted from your account balance. Alibaba Cloud measures your service usage for the previous calendar day, generates a bill, and deducts the service fees from your Alibaba Cloud account on the next calendar day.
Pricing
International site
Region | Unit price (USD/CU/hour) |
China East 1 (Hangzhou) | 0.049 |
China East 2 (Shanghai) | 0.049 |
China North 1 (Qingdao) | 0.049 |
China North 2 (Beijing) | 0.049 |
China North 6 (Ulanqab) | 0.044 |
China North 6 (Ulanqab) Local Zone | 0.063 |
China South 1 (Shenzhen) | 0.049 |
China South 3 (Guangzhou) | 0.049 |
China Southwest 1 (Chengdu) | 0.049 |
China (Hong Kong) | 0.075 |
Japan (Tokyo) | 0.07 |
Singapore | 0.068 |
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) | 0.053 |
Indonesia (Jakarta) | 0.068 |
Philippines (Manila) | 0.062 |
Thailand (Bangkok) | 0.065 |
Germany (Frankfurt) | 0.066 |
UK (London) | 0.063 |
UAE (Dubai) | 0.068 |
US (Virginia) | 0.063 |
US (Silicon Valley) | 0.063 |
US (Atlanta) | 0.063 |